Word: asphalt
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...body. Within minutes Jerusalem's streets filled with the familiar, sickening sights and sounds that accompany every Palestinian suicide bombing: blood and screams and sirens. As ambulances came for the dead and the injured--the blast killed six and wounded 80--a woman's severed head rolled along the asphalt...
Eliminating the cyclotron is part of a larger overhaul Harvard is planning for science buildings around Oxford St. and Divinity Ave. The University promises the end result someday will be more research facilities, more grass and less asphalt...
...smooth asphalt patch poured over the roadway after the completion of the utility work “made the roadway look even more like a roadway,” said Gene Ketelhohn, area manager of the three Quad houses...
...would argue with the feeling of Rabbi Steven Leder of Los Angeles' huge Wilshire Boulevard Temple that since the terror "the intensity of the [religious] experience has heightened." On Sept. 22, as Attorney General John Ashcroft warned that Boston might be attacked next, 15,000 Christians knelt on the asphalt of City Hall Plaza in a display of Christian repentance. Evangelist Franklin Graham thinks the mood will hold. "There is a conflict in front of us," he says. "And that is going to keep the focus on the spiritual...
...untitled depictions of 1940s urban New York has a small child-probably a baby boomer-at the epicenter; her mother is tucked into the periphery and a car speeds towards the child, who runs to her mother. The salient objects of the photograph are machines, cars, buildings, concrete, asphalt, and, in increasing numbers, people. The space presents itself ominously and uninvitingly. The child seems afraid, uncomfortable, not at home. In such a way, Levit appears to be depicting a sort of psychological dysphoria in terms of the physical space her subjects occupy...